Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…

Blind Melon’s “No Rain” is one of those inescapable ’90s songs that everybody seems to like, even if it’s just for its groovy opening riff or fond memories of the dancing bee girl in the video. It’s 2016, though, so music’s not really about groovy riffs and bee girls anymore. These days, music is about big copyright…

I’m sitting on a train being laughed at by a group of teenagers. I’m wearing baggy, ripped jeans and a Cat In The Hat hat. They point and snigger, while I gamely try to join in the mocking good cheer by staring uncomfortably off into the distance and pretending I’m elsewhere, anywhere, besides here. Finally, we hit…

Williamsburg, Brooklyn may have just reached peak irony. This September, the neighborhood so hip that it’s not even hip anymore will host 90sFest, a celebration of all things 34-year olds remember and 23-year-olds kind of, sort of at least remember the concept of. With musical headliners like the bread-addled Smash…